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Goral, Mira, Luca Campanelli and Avron Spiro. 2015. Language dominance and inhibition abilities in bilingual older adults. Bilingualism 18 (1).

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | cognition | language dominance | language use

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study explores the supposed bilingual benefit in older Spanish–English adults’ performance in three cognitive fields and examines whether language use and bilingual type (dominant vs. balanced) forecast feat. Bilingualism may present cognitive gain in older age only for a part of bilinguals.